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The Great Albums

Bonus Song Thursday - Pearl Jam "The Fixer"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It's the very first bonus song Thursday on the Great Albums podcast! Bill and Brian talk even more about Pearl Jam, focusing on the song "The Fixer" from 2009's Backspacer. Songwriting, making positive music, new wave influences, and Matt Cameron are discussed in this episode. If you like hearing about great music, but don't have two hours to waste listening to us blather on about an entire album, then this 20 minute episode all about a single song is the one for you!

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0:00.0

The Great Albums Podcasts. Find us on Facebook and give us a like. If you're listening on iTunes,

0:05.2

we'd love it if you could stop by our page and give us a nice review. We'd like seeing that. On to the show. When something's cold, let me shed a little light on it.

0:30.8

When something's cold, let me put a little fire on it.

0:35.6

If something's all, I want to put a in a shine on it, but something's cold.

0:41.3

I want to fight to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And today we have a special

1:03.6

formatted episode for you. We have decided to, in order to include our twice a week, or continue our twice a week release schedule, instead of doing two full episodes, we wanted to give you a little bit more of a bite-sized piece that is a little more easily digestible on Thursdays, that will be a companion to Monday's episode.

1:26.2

Yep.

1:27.0

Yeah, and we're going to kind of talk

1:29.5

about a, you know, the full albums on Mondays, as we always have. But as Bill said, a bite-sized

1:35.1

piece, we're just going to pick another song from another album by Monday's artist to discuss. And

1:42.1

that should be our Thursday program from here on out until we change our mind and do something different.

1:49.5

Yeah.

1:50.9

But yeah, as we focused on just a couple days ago, we did verses by Pearl Jam.

1:59.3

And of course, now what you just heard was The Fixer by Pearl Jam from 2009's

2:04.8

album Backspacer.

2:06.5

Before we go too much further, I do want to give credit where credit is due.

2:10.5

The idea for this actually came from my bandmate, former guest of the podcast and future guest

2:17.3

of the podcast, Andrew Colbenshlog.

2:20.1

Thank you, Andrew.

2:20.9

Yeah, it was a really good idea.

2:24.0

Yeah, a little bit easier on us, so that we're not having to kind of pump out two albums a week.

2:30.3

And it makes sense, too, because a lot of the time, too, people don't always have an hour and a half to two hours.

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